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JONES, Terry and PALIN, Michael
Frost On Sunday and The Frost Report:
N.p. [London]: N.p. 1967-8
A small quantity of original typescripts, printed typescripts and photocopied typescripts, many secured with staple to top left corner, and many... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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ARMSTRONG, Michael
House of the Long Shadows
London: Cannon Films, 1982
Screenplay, 285 x 225mm, pp. 122. Black faux-leather wrappers, title in gilt gothic to front wrapper, the whole secured by two gold... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[SELLERS, Peter] GRAFTON, Jimmy and GRIFFITHS, Peter
Happy Holidays
London: N.p. [BBC], 1954
Five episodes, c.45 pp. each, secured with split pin to top left.
First editions. PRODUCER JACQUES BROWN'S COPY, WITH HIS ANNOTATIONS, AND ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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NATION, Terry; JUNKIN, John; FREEMAN, Dave
Floggits [sic]: Series One, Episode 3
London: N.p. [BBC], 1956
34 mimeographed pp., 5 typed inserts, all secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. TERRY NATION'S EXTENSIVELY REVISED WORKING... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[SELLERS, Peter] GREIFER, Lewis and RICHLER, Mordecai
Insomnia Is Good For You
London: Park Lane Films, 1957
Shooting script, 33 mimeographed pp., stapled in to oversized red card wrappers. Typed title label to front cover, typed ownership label ('Park... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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MILLIGAN, Spike; STEPHENS, Larry
The Goon Show: Series Seven, Episode Four: The Macreekie Rising Of '74
London: N.p. [BBC], 1956
23 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. CO-WRITER LARRY STEPHENS' COPY, WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE TO... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[Riverside Studios]
A Fabulous Collection of Material Relating to the Appearances of Elisabeth Welch, Adelaide Hall and the Harlem Renaissance at the Riverside Studios, London.
Various dates, mostly 1980s.
1: PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL:
i) 35 original photographic negatives of ELISABETH WELCH performing at Riverside in April 1982.
ii) 67 original photographic negatives of ADELAIDE HALL... [more]
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TERRY-THOMAS and MUIR, Frank
Terry's Topics: 'TRIAL RECORDING ONLY - NOT FOR TRANSMISSION'
London: N.p. [BBC], 1947
15 mimeographed pp., secured by split pin at top left.
First edition. PILOT SCRIPT FOR AN EARLY TERRY-THOMAS VEHICLE, RECORDED BUT NEVER... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[HANCOCK, Tony] GALTON, Ray and SIMPSON, Alan
Calling All Forces: Series 2, Episode 12
London: N.p. [BBC], 1952
39 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. ALAN SIMPSON'S COPY OF THE SECOND EVER GALTON AND SIMPSON SCRIPT,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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HILL, Benny
A Collection of Correspondence from Benny Hill to Louise English, a Joke Book belonging to Hill, and a Small Collection of his Theatrical Effects
V.p.: N.p., V.d.
14 handwritten postcards and 3 ALS (2 in their envelopes), and a colour photograph taken at Hill's graveside. With a small collection of Hill's theatrical effects (described below).
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GALTON, Ray and SIMPSON, Alan
Steptoe and Son
N.p. [London]: N.p. [BBC] 1965
49 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left corner. 'No. 3 Spare' inked and '396' pencilled to top right corner of title... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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PARKER, Alan
Mr. Smile
London: Alan Parker Film Co., N.d. [c.1972]
8vo., pp. 68, with an additional 23 typed pages, lettered and bound in, and a duplicate p.11. Handwritten contact details for Petter Fetterman of Associated London Films to title page, as well as the number '16' ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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KOMISARJEVSKY, Theodore
Myself and the Theatre
London: Heinemann, 1929
8vo, pp. 205. Original dark green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition. PRESENTATION COPY FROM JOHN GIELGUD TO THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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HUDIS, Norman
Carry On, Nurse
N.p.: N.p., 1958
116 typed mimeographed pp., secured by staple press to left edge, housed in a manilla folder with 'CARRY ON, NURSE Working Title Draft Script 19.9.58'.
DICK VOSBURGH'S COPY OF THE DRAFT SCREENPLAY OF ONLY THE SECOND CARRY ON FILM, WITH OCCASIONAL PENCIL ANNOTATIONS IN HIS HAND.
In 1958 Carry On, Sergeant... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[dir. NEAME, Ronald] GARFIELD, Brian and FORBES, Bryan
Hopscotch
Los Angeles: N.p., N.d. [1979]
114pp. shooting script bound in burgundy wrappers, title in gilt to foot of front wrapper.
ART DIRECTOR MARK NERINI'S COPY, INSCRIBED TO HIM BY THE FILM'S STAR WALTER MATTHAU: 'Good health! Walter Matthau'. ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[PARKER, Dorothy] OPPENHEIMER, George
The Passionate Playgoer
New York: Viking, 1958
8vo, pp. 623. Original pale purple boards, lettered in dark purple to front panel and gilt on dark purple to spine. Top edge purple. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition. DOROTHY PARKER'S COPY.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[McKern, Leo]
First Night Telegram to Leo McKern from Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh
Nottingham: N.p., 1959
Greetings telegram, stamp-dated 10 August 1959 to reverse.
FIRST NIGHT TELEGRAM, DATED 10 AUGUST 1959, TO LEO McKERN FROM LAURENCE OLIVIER AND HIS WIFE VIVIEN LEIGH: 'Great good wishes for huge success, Vivien and Laurence Olivier.'
'[McKern's] second, and last ever, directing job was the Australian prize-winning stage play The Shifting Heart by Richard Beynon, a story of Italian immigrants living in Collingwood, then a slum suburb of Melbourne, and their struggle for acceptance and survival in a racist community. ... It's UK season was at the Nottingham Theatre Royal from 10 August 1959, then the Duke of York's in the West End -- a joint venture by Sir Laurence Olivier's company and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. Olivier had invited McKern to direct.'
George Whaley, Leo 'Rumpole' McKern: The Accidental Actor [USNW Press, 2009]
The show received mixed reviews, and McKern himself felt he'd done a bad job. On the up side, he kept the telegram sent to him by one of twentieth century theatre's most glamorous couples.
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CUSHING, Peter
TLS to Leo McKern
Whitstable: N.p., 1993
1 p. TLS on Peter Cushing's personalised stationery. Unfolded.
TLS FAN LETTER FROM PETER CUSHING TO LEO McKERN DATED 16 SEPTEMBER 1993, LESS THAN A YEAR BEFORE CUSHING'S DEATH.
A warm, effusive fan letter from cinema's greatest vampire-slayer, it reads:
'Dear Leo McKern,
It's that fan again! Some years ago I wrote to you about your superb 'Rumpole' series, and received a most charming letter of thanks.
My admiration for your work goes back to the play (and subsequent film) 'A Man For All Seasons', and you have never failed to captivate me. Having seen you recently in 'Travelling North', and again the other evening in 'A Foreign Field' I just had to write once more.There is a 'je-ne-sais-quoi' quality about your performances which touches the heartstrings, and if you don't receive some public recognition eventually, there's no justice in this world!
Thank you, dear fellow, for such pleasure. It makes me very proud to remember we worked together in 1956 in 'Time Without Pity', with Michael Redgrave and Ann Todd. (Long ago and far away!)
With kindest wishes, and may God's blessing be with you always.
As ever,
(sgd) Peter Cushing O.B.E. Whitstable, Kent'
(The 'public recognition' Cushing refers to is of course not audience approval, but the possible future conferring of honours on McKern: Cushing himself was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1989).
A touching salute to a fellow actor from one of the most distinctive and distinguished figures of British cinema.
